{"id":1311,"date":"2013-07-31T04:59:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2013-07-31T05:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T05:13:15","slug":"guruji-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Guruji & more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wifi at our hotel, once again, proved to be unreliable this morning. I spent an hour putting together my blog for the day, and the wifi wasn’t working. Now that it’s working, I find that my blog post draft has disappeared so now I have to recreate it. I’m telling myself to let it go, and satisfying that “letting it go” with a brief description of following photos.<\/p>\n

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\nIndian police vehicle (2 police passenger)
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\nHotel where we are staying now, but tonight will be our last night here.
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\nThis is Kathleen (my new bestie from Milwaukee…) sporting the wrap-around-the-ears face mask needed at certain times, like when there’s a lot of traffic (always) or walking past something really icky smelling (almost always).<\/p>\n

The following are pictures of the exterior of RIYMI (Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Memorial Institute). Cameras aren’t allowed inside, and (after I took these exterior pictures) I learned photos aren’t allowed on the premises …
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\nThese are carvings of Guruji on the exterior of the building.<\/p>\n

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\nRandom chicken cruising down the sidewalk.
\n\"20130731-101052.jpg\"<\/a>\"20130731-101110.jpg\"<\/a>A lot of people ride motorcycles here. It’s common to see 2, 3 and sometimes 4 people on one motorcycle (dad, mom, small child, baby), usually with no helmets.<\/p>\n

Just down the street from the Institute, there’s a beautiful park that is very well maintained with locking gates for when the park is closed, so it stays clean.\"20130731-101423.jpg\"<\/a>\"20130731-101445.jpg\"<\/a>\"20130731-101508.jpg\"<\/a>\"20130731-101532.jpg\"<\/a>\"20130731-101600.jpg\"<\/a>This bamboo is huge.\"20130731-101636.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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We saw Guruji and Geetaji today for the first time, and Guruji was practicing in the room with us during our practice time – long supported backbends, just like the pictures (over the horse, in the ropes, over the bench …), and giving directions to his regular student\/teachers while he was practicing. He is truly amazing at 95!!<\/p>\n

We have practice again today at 4pm, then tomorrow begin attending classes. I presented a note for Geetaji about my shoulder surgery, so I have yet to learn whether I’ll be attending regular classes or medical classes (or both). But practice is going well and I feel I’ve gained a little more mobility.<\/p>\n

Ommmmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wifi at our hotel, once again, proved to be unreliable this morning. I spent an hour putting together my blog for the day, and the wifi wasn’t working. Now that it’s working, I find that my blog post draft has disappeared so now I have to recreate it. I’m telling myself to let it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}